Leasing

Lease Trade-Out Analyzer

Analyzes whether to renew an existing tenant or trade out for a new one with full financial comparison.

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01 · Problem

Analyzes whether to renew an existing tenant or trade out for a new one with full financial comparison.

Derived from the skill’s “Skill description” section.

02 · Who & When

Trigger on any of these signals:

  • Explicit: "trade-out", "renew or replace", "lease expiration decision", "tenant trade-out", "renewal vs. new tenant", "should I renew", "lease trade out", "roll the tenant"
  • Implicit: user is weighing a below-market tenant expiring soon; user has a prospect for a space currently occupied; user is deciding whether to offer renewal terms or let a lease expire; user asks about TI payback on a new lease vs. renewal
  • Context: user provides rent roll with an expiring tenant and asks for recommendation; user mentions a specific tenant is at 80% of market and asks what to do

Do NOT trigger for: portfolio-wide renewal strategy across multiple tenants (use tenant-retention-engine), new construction lease-up with no existing tenants (use lease-up-war-room), or rent optimization across all occupied space (use rent-optimization-planner).

Derived from the skill’s “When to Activate” section.

03 · How It's Done Today

Not documented yet for this skill.

04 · What This Skill Changes

Present results in this order:

  1. Current Lease Economics Snapshot -- in-place rent, market rent, rent gap, effective rent with amortized original costs
  2. Renewal Scenario -- full economics, cash flows, effective rent, NPV
  3. Trade-Out Scenario -- full economics including all upfront costs, cash flows, effective rent, NPV
  4. NPV Comparison -- side-by-side table with delta and sensitivity matrix
  5. Breakeven Analysis -- three-variable breakeven with market context
  6. Risk-Adjusted Comparison -- probability-weighted trade-out NPV vs. renewal NPV
  7. Co-Tenancy and Portfolio Impact -- only if relevant (anchor, single-tenant, co-tenancy clause exists)
  8. Recommendation -- GO RENEW / GO TRADE-OUT / CONDITIONAL with confidence level, terms, and conditions

Derived from the skill’s “Output Format” section.

05 · Risks & Caveats

Stale-data note: Market TI benchmarks, LC rates, and vacancy duration estimates reflect mid-2025 market norms. Submarket absorption data must be user-supplied. Cap rate assumptions for sensitivity analysis are estimates -- use current broker opinion or recent comps.

Derived from the skill’s “stale-data note” section.